Hart of the Gutenberg Galaxy
What kind of a man wants toput the 10,000 most important books online by 2002 and make them available for free? (Hint: the kind of man who puts sugar on his pizza.)
By Denise Hamilton

Head Start
Neuroscientist Theodore Berger is working real hard to be the first person to implant microchips between your ears.
By Samuel Greengard

Features2001 Double Take: I was Teenage CentenarianArthur C. Clarke, that modest genius, talks about HAL in 3001,computers that can take a joke, and the two looming breakthroughs that will get us back on our space odyssey.By Jeff Greenwald

Confessions of a WebbackGuillermo Gómez-Peña uses the anonymous, open nature of the Net to turn racism into art.By Evantheia Schibsted

Declaration of InterdependenceAccording to eco-architect Bill McDonough, failure to protect the environment is intergenerational tyranny, and the key to saving the planet isn't more regulations, but better design.By Vernon Mays

The PhynancierOut on the high risk frontier where mathematics, physics, and finance collide, the enigmatic and hugely successful quant David Shaw is determined to make Wall Street obsolete.By Thomas A. Bass

Trumbull's VisionHe invented modern special effects with his work on 2001. Now Douglas Trumbull believes that the future of special effects is beyond movies.By Jeff Greenwald